Hi, sorry to get back to this so late...the thing is, most kids can make their index finger bend, and lock, at the knuckle, so that the index finger is in a 90 degree position- the other knuckle towards the end of the finger stays straight, so the finger is kind of in an "L" position. Thing is, for the most part, only…

Wasn't there an archaeologist a few years back who hypothesized the same thing, based on the 90-degree angle thing that women can do with their index fingers, that was shown in a lot of cave paintings?

Uh, yeah, the Tintin book...oh dear. Eeep.

Oh, she was somethin' special...announced, apropos of nothing one day that God had nothing to do with fossils or dinos- THEY WERE PUT HERE BY SATAN, and this was why the Dinos-With-Jesus pictures were completely off-whack. We were prepping veggies for 250+ schoolchildren at a Head Start location, and one of her fave…

Thanks. Guess I was wrong...it can get worse, can't it?

Well, he did get a donut out of the deal....

I dunno...used to know a serious, serious Christian extremist who believed that dinosaurs and ALL fossils were put here by Satan. This would be a perfect fit with her worldview!

That was my reaction, too. I was considering having this done, earlier this year, but found out that the other kind with the little plastic insert is no longer available. Metal springs corked into my tubes? Nope, nope, nope!

We made paper lanterns like this once in grade school...

Shiny, shiny beads. Patina-ed metalwork. Wirework. Either that, or something with women fixing stuff, with tools- and NOT in some kind of douchey car-mag "poses", but actually repairing irrigation pipes or doing drywall or fixing their own cars or something. Oh, wait, that doesn't actually exist yet, does it?

Yep. I am one of the migraine folks, complete with visual disturbances- halo-ing and the little twitchy-looking things. What's fun is finding out, by accident, that something that's ostensibly the "regular" version of a soda or the like contains artificial sweeteners right alongside the corn syrup and sugar. This…

Feed not the Troll, lest it should grow larger and more hideous....

Sooo...the UK's now part of Florida?

Thank you. I am not in government, myself, but have observed exactly the same thing, with my legislators, both on a state and national level. It really does appear to come down to how many handouts a politician can get from corporations, and the hot-button bait-n-switch goes on and on. Our local media is totally…

Best of luck. A PAP turned those up for me one time, too- scary as hell.

Actually, raw pineapple has a bunch of enzymes that break down proteins- the reason that they're so useful in marinades. Canned pineapple doesn't have 'em, thanks to the heat in the canning process. Some folks are sensitive to it, but it sounds like it can be overcome! Good on you- fresh pineapple's soooo goooood.

Wow, I didn't know that! Thank you! Agreed about the process, though. And LaserKitten's pic looks about how I'd guessed the real thing would turn out....

And the link comes with terrible malware, too. :/

Oh, don't worry. They're not real. Most commercial food pics do not contain actual food. Food pics are an art, imitating an unreality which will never actually happen.